English Literature Mcqs — Test 46

Horace was a_____________?

Who proposed that poets should be banished from the ideal Republic ?

In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy there are four interlocuters representing four different ideologies. Which of them expresses Dryden’s own views ?

This literary critic warned: “We must remember that the greater part of our current reading matter is written for us by people who have no real belief in a supernatural order . . . And the greater part . . . is coming to be written by people who not only have no such belief, but are even ignorant of the fact that there are still people in the world so ’backward’ or so ’eccentric’ as to continue to believe.” ?

What approach is described by the paragraph? Those who apply this approach believe it is necessary to know about the author and the political, economical, and sociological context of his times in order to truly understand his works ?

What did Sigmund Freud believe about the unconscious?

In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as____________?

Among the following which is not a work by Aristotle ?

Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of firstwave feminism ?

This feminist critic proposed that all female characters in literature are in at least one of the following stages of development: the feminine, feminist, or female stage ?